Children Quote by Wendy Ely

“The situation wasn’t ideal. But it was what she had to work with, so she would work with it. She was a tough one,”

— Lev Grossman

“Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.”

— Barbara Delinsky

“I have to keep her in line somehow or she'll think she's the boss of everything.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

“Could this motherfucker please stop looking at his daughter like he wanted to have relations with her right in front of him???”

— D.A. Young

“People asked if I was his daughter. They ask all the time. Hoping, accusing. We never say yes, and we never say no.”

— Kirsteen Reed

“having sex with her boss.”

— Stephen Henning

“I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.”

— Laura Whitcomb

“Stay out of situations that you don’t absolutely have to get involved with.”

— Art Hochberg

“They trusted each other, although they were going to part, perhaps because they were going to part.”

— E.M. Forster

“Sometimes things just got too complicated. Something unwanted was added to something wanted and blew the whole thing apart.”

— Josh Malerman

“If there was no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else…

— David Levithan

“She might get the wrong idea. Like he was going soft or nice or something. Which wasn’t the case. At all.”

— Tricia Mingerink